Failures Quotes

896 Failures quotes by 681 unique authors

We know people by their stories: their history, their habits, their secrets, their triumphs and failures. We know them by what they do. We want… — Bruce Barcott
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important… — Edward Steichen
It is a common mistake to think of failure as the enemy of success. Failure is a teacher-a harsh one, but the best. Pull your… — Thomas J. Watson
If success were easy, then it would not necessarily be true success. Some of history's most successful people learned to cope with failure as a… — John Templeton
Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept failures as a part of… — Wilferd Peterson
What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is bad? All that… — Friedrich Nietzsche
[I]t is easy to regard the mind and the body as two slaves trained to obey the imperial soul.... [I]n this trinity of soul, mind,… — Edward Everett Hale
The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for… — Rick Falkvinge
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life… — June Jordan
It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is… — Thomas Huxley
Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training,… — Susan Sontag
Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will… — Zhang Zai
What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off. — Frank Langella
I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a… — Arthur Levitt Jr
NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of… — Burt Rutan
Everybody saw my successful advertising and thought I was a big success. But, behind those successes were several failures that I had to learn from… — Joseph Sugarman
With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes. — Aziz Ansari
It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this,… — Max Weber
Don't let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart. — Bill Cosby
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those… — Harold Rosenberg
Sometimes I am a little unkind to all my many friends in education ... by saying that from the time it learns to talk every… — Hermann Bondi
If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain… — Arthur C. Clarke
Therefore, your mistakes and your failures are blessings; opportunities for the best in parenting. And those who point out your mistakes are not your enemies,… — William Martin
Tulips come up in spring for no reason. Of course, you planted bulbs and now in April the earth warms up. But why? For no… — Natalie Goldberg
Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure… — Malcolm Mclaren

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